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COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism

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COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism

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/ 14 January 2021

Our pandemic quarantine has become the sublime enactment of Baudrillard's theory of consumption – that modern consumption, with its myth of individual liberty and choice, is in fact 'de-socialising'.

The Singularity of Žižek

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The Singularity of Žižek

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/ 8 September 2020

According to Slavoj Žižek's latest work, Hegel in a Wired Brain, a new kind of Fall from the Fall is necessary.

Film Forum Marx Brothers Festival: Unassuaged Desire

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Film Forum Marx Brothers Festival: Unassuaged Desire

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Chadwick Jenkins

/ 23 September 2016

The Marx Brothers are polymorphously perverse: they find pleasure everywhere.

Slavoj Zizek and Black America: Zizek Visits the ‘Tavis Smiley Show’

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Slavoj Zizek and Black America: Zizek Visits the ‘Tavis Smiley Show’

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PopMatters Staff

/ 5 November 2015

When you make jokes about black culture, the wrong people laugh at the wrong times for the wrong reasons. Slavoj Zizek tells Tavis Smiley why... sort of.

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Rounding Up the Gang: ‘The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today’

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/ 16 October 2013

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Slavoj Zizek Talks Politics and Culture with Vice

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/ 4 October 2013

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What ‘La Femme Nikita’ Has to Say about Egypt and Former President Hosni Mubarek

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/ 21 February 2011

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Examined Life

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/ 25 February 2010

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Examined Life: Philosophy is in the Streets

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/ 25 February 2009

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A Perverted Perception of Movies

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/ 29 January 2009

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Me, Myself & BBCi: Who’s Watching Whom

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Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

/ 18 August 2008

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Zizek! (2005)

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PopMatters Staff

/ 24 January 2007